On Monday, September 3d, the household expenses at Shipley (Shippeleye) amounted to £10. 10s. 2¾d. They are thus detailed:—
"Dispensary 18s. 11½d, — butlery 33s. 7¾d, — wardrobe 4s. 2¼d. — kitchen 20s. 1½d. — scullery 2s. 5d. — saucery 2s. 1½d. — hall and chamber 5d. — stables 64s 6¾d wages — 59s. 9½d — alms 4s. — total £10 10s. 2¾d".
"Presents: 1 cheese, 17¼ lbs. wax, 1 quar. 6½ bus. oats, 1½ carcases oxen, 3, carcases mutton, 2 pigs, 1 mullet, 14 rabbits." (g)
Sir Edward de St. John also presented at Shepele —
"2 carcases oxen, 2 swans, 9 pikes, 13 bream, 1 tench, 6 large eels." (b)
On Tuesday, September 4th, the expenses of the royal household were £10. 19s. 3½d, at Horsham. (g) In another MS. the king dates on this day at "Chesworth" a permission to Stephen de Power, who was employed in his service, to delay his compliance with a late proclamation which had ordered him and all persons who possessed £40 in land, or rent, or fief, worth £40 a year, to take up arms fit for knights before Michaelmas. (f) It was in fact probably at Chesworth, now called Chedworth, that the king was lodged on this occasion, half a mile from Horsham, the ancient residence of the lords of Bramber. The Bishop of Oxford's claim of free warren in this manor by grant of Henry III had been allowed in 1279. Peter de Braose in 1306 claimed the manor as heir of William de Braose, to whom Amicia, Countess of Devon, had granted it. (Placit. quo warr. 754. — Abbrev. Placit.) William de Braose, who held the manor in 1363, entailed it on his three sons (Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p. 180). According to a survey in 1608, when held by lease under the crown by Sir John Caryll, it is described as then—
"Very dilapidated, notwithstanding 100 loads of wood have been yearly assigned by his majesty's woodward for the ayring of the same, besides timber for repayring. The situation hereof is upon a marsh ground, unhealthy, obscure, and the foundation sunk at the least one foot and more." (p. 335.)
The king here granted a pension of £70 to William de Brewosa, who had given to him and his heirs the castle and vill of Brembre and Shoreham, valued at the same sum. (f)
On the following day, Wednesday, September 5th, the expenses of the king's household were £10. 5s. 9¼d. at 'Neubrigge.' (g)
